The other day my collegue, Steve Skrla, was having an infinite recursion issue caused by my javascript clone function. We discovered that the for some reason it was equating a string value with an array value. After a little more digging Steve found the culprit. Simply put, Javascript’s == operator is broken.
I did a little more digging and discovered exactly what Javascript is doing. It turns out that when comparing anything to a string, Javascript first runs a toString on the other item being compared.
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